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Kiva Blog Updates

As part of Kiva's US pilot partnerships launching, Kiva was featured on ABC's "Good Morning America" and "World News with Charles Gibson!" If you missed these stories last week, make sure to check them out here!

You asked for it - and now you have it! We've added printable gift certificates to our gift feature so you have a colorful certificate to give the lucky recipient of your Kiva Gift. Even if you purchased your gift certificate before we added this feature you will still be able to print a certificate for your gift - just log in to your Portfolio and all un-redeemed gift certificates will be available for printing.

Kiva.org is extremely pleased to announce a partnership with HOPE International, a global, faith-based, non-profit organization focused on poverty alleviation through microenterprise development.
HOPE's vision is to enable sustainable economic development that results in significant and lasting change, temporal and eternal, in the lives of many people living in poverty. HOPE works in twelve countries: Afghanistan, China, the Dominican Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, South Asia, Uganda, and Ukraine.

Congratulations! Kiva.org has been announced as a winner of Omidyar.net's Q4 Funding Project.

Kiva.org is a winner of the Comprehensive Connectivity Initiative: "This initiative seeks to build new infrastructure, tools, curriculum and nuts and bolts resources for grassroots groups seeking to bring computers and internet access to their areas for the first time." We'd like to thank all of the members of the Omidyar Network who voted for Kiva.org - it's an honor to be recognised for our work by this group!

Kiva.org today announced its third Kenyan Field Partner, Ebony Foundation.

Ebony Foundation (Eb-F) is a micro finance institution providing financial services to peasant, small-scale farmers, small and micro Entrepreneurs in Kenya with a mission to improve rural livelihood by promoting income generation activities among the poor.

Eb-F provides its target communities with a range of products and services that include factoring/ payments for produce and services delivered to reputable...

Kiva.org today raised its ONE MILLIONTH DOLLAR for the developing world.

This marks a major milestone for the organization, and demonstrates that real change can be created by average individuals who want to make a difference.

Kiva.org would like to thank our 13,000 users who have contributed, $25 at a time, to lending ONE MILLION DOLLARS to entrepreneurs in the developing world. Kiva.org would also like to thank our Field Partners who have worked so hard to connect our lenders with their entrepreneurs, believing that the internet can be a valuable tool to help people... Continue Reading >>

Hluvuko's mission is to improve the socio-economic conditions of the population in the Matutuine district and contiguous areas, providing sustainable services to low income people, considering the viability of the initiatives.

The Matutuine district has a very low population density, of approx. 6.5 inhabitants per square kilometer, and was severely affected by the civil war. It also has a high...

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